Poems by Henri Alain-Fournier, trans. Costello, Howell & Marsh Andrew Taylor Over thirty years later

Over thirty years later

the autobiographical poems of Progeny of Air

they move between English and Scots

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but instead of approaching song’s recognition and resolution they push towards the unfamiliar

Poems by Henri Alain-Fournier, trans. Costello, Howell & Marsh Andrew Taylor Over thirty years laterAlain Fourniers poems, while relatively few, are one of the small pearls washed up in the maelstrom of early twentieth century France. Best known for his novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a posthumous classic, Alain Fournier was killed in battle in 1914. His poems suspend a pre war French idyll of warm evenings and rained on orchards, silk banded straw hats, lamp lit farmhouses and young love reaching out in the frightening dark, with timid fingers. His lines